Re: [GENERAL] Table Names

2007-06-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 23, 2007, at 21:29 , Naz Gassiep wrote: Is there a limit on the length of table names? NAMEDATALEN http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-syntax- lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] Table Names

2007-06-23 Thread Naz Gassiep
Is there a limit on the length of table names? Thanks, - Naz. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
> We have recently had a few problems with Interbase on Linux so the > pressure is on them (and they are defiantely not moving ahead as fast as > postgresql is, all the recent versions have been very late and some big > bugs have been left in the field for a long time). Yes, we seem to move at li

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
> That explains it. In fact, the creates do not use double quotes, > but the queries do. I'll have to find a way to fix that. I have seen that before. Quotations either preserve case, or they don't, but it seems some db's don't honor that. -- Bruce Momjian| http://w

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-25 Thread David Warnock
Stephen, Interesting that you are converting from Interbase. We have now reached the point where we only use 2 commercial pieces of software. Interbase and Visual SlickEdit. I would like to drop Interbase but currently we ship quite a few single user systems running on Win 9x. We have very good

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-24 Thread Stephen Birch
That explains it. In fact, the creates do not use double quotes, but the queries do. I'll have to find a way to fix that. Steve > > All identifiers are changed to lower case unless they are in > double-quotes. If they use double-quotes in the creates, but not in the > queries, you will have

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Try exporting the tables (including table creation stmts) to a text file and > then ASCII ftping the file to the Unix Server to convert the CRLF and import > using pgsql...The documentation has the commands to import files... > All identifiers are changed to lower case unless they are in doub

Re: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-24 Thread Kane Tao
gt; To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 11:47 PM Subject: [GENERAL] Table names case sensitive? > Although the PostgreSQL tables are created correctly, the write > operations are failing. It looks like the ODBC driver is attempting to > create tables with

[GENERAL] Table names case sensitive?

1999-11-24 Thread Stephen Birch
Having been suitable impressed by the "PostgreSQL ready for mission critical apps" thread, I decided to bite the bullet and convert our database from Interbase to PostgreSQL. Almost immediately I encountered a puzzling problem. To make things easy, I am using the Borland "data pump" on an NT mac

[GENERAL] Table Names.......

1999-10-05 Thread Dale Anderson
Is there any way to use table names longer than 32 characters Dale.